The University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh announced Tuesday it is offering eligible faculty and staff a voluntary retirement buyout with a one-time payment equal to 50% of an employee's annual base salary.

UW-Oshkosh becomes the third campus within the UW System to offer buyouts in an effort to reduce its workforce in the face of state budget cuts. UW-Eau Claire was the first, followed last week by UW-Superior.

UW-Oshkosh expects about 100 employees would be eligible. It has set a goal of reducing its workforce by 80 within the next three years.(85)

Barry Alvarez: Big Ten agrees no more FCS opponents

Madison – Speaking on his monthly radio show Tuesday night, Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez shared a nugget of information that should cheer football fans who long for better nonleague games. »Read Full Blog Post

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This is the begining of the end when the 5 major conference break away from the NCAA. You watch and see! In less than ten years these schools will break from the NCAA and form there own governing body.

the big ten will probably be dropping the leaders and legends names (which one is uw in?) and go with east and west. time for the ncaa to drop fbs and fcs and go back to 1 and 1-a. why over complicate things? (fbs has a championship game now too.)

The problem with 'east and west' is that there are six logical west teams and four logical east teams, and then the two teams in the state of Michigan, and two in the state of Indiana. And pretty much any way you want to divide it up, some state ends up with their in-state rival team in the other division.

And even with a ninth or even tenth conference game, if you do the same 'annual game with other division rival', you'd still go years and years between games against certain teams in the other division.

I don't know how they 'clean up' the mess they've created. (But I'm pretty sure I won't like it)

I guess the question really is why did Big Ten schools even play these inferior opponents? They may have helped pad the win column, but they sure didn't help prepare them for real competition. And Wisconsin was always among the worst at overscheduling FCS opponents.

A lot of teams from all conferences have done that. BTW, the OSU nonconference schedule this year was really daunting. All 4 games in Columbus and only one opponent made a bowl game. Badgers played two bowl teams and played at Oregon State. I guess refusing to leave Columbus is the best prep, eh?

Woeful UAB (FBS CUSA) had tosu on the ropes last season. That's probably why FCS teams are so popular among the "Bigs." Except in rare instances (See the Appalachian State win over the maize and blue which prematurely cost Lloyd Carr his job and set Michi back for years.), FCS schools provide an automatic W.

So, KC, your point is that Ohio State wasn't prepared for the regular season? Really? Seems to me that if they had been able to play in the post season they might very well have been in the BCS mix. Plus, there is more to the OSU FCS matchups. Most are in-state schools and/or schools with a history with OSU.